JOHN CARTER OF MARS

Four Square paperback, June 1968. Cover artist is Josh Kirby
(thanks, Mark).

"Here is the eleventh, and final, book in Edgar Rice Burroughs' best-selling Martian Series. John Carter is pitted against the infamous Pew Mogel, who has kidnapped his beloved wife, Dejah Thoris. The famous Warlord of Barsoom is lured to a deserted city on the shores of the dread sea of Korvas. But instead of his wife, he finds a huge synthetic giant and hordes of great, white apes into each of which the brain of a man has been grafted. It takes all the skill of Carter's famous fighting arm and extraordinary agility to preserve his life - and meanwhile the sands of time are running out for Dejah Thoris!"

BRING THE JUBILEE

Four Square SF paperback, 1965. Cover artist uncredited.

"New York contained a population of nearly a million, representing the greatest concentration of people in the United States though, of course, it did not compare with the great cities of the Confederacy, Washington (now spreading to Baltimore), and Leesburg (once Mexico City). In this New York: buildings sometimes reached more than ten stories. Balloons moved gracefully through the air. Telegraph wires joined houses and nearly everyone knew morse code. Bicycles were thick as flies. And when darkness fell, gas-lamps - lit simultaneously by telegraphic sparks - glowed at sparked on every street corner. A young man from the country, in the city for the first time, was knocked out and robbed. And thus started a chain of events that was to mean the re-writing of history, the creation of another, almost unbelievable, world - where the Confederate states had not won their independence!"

EARTHWORKS

Four Square paperback, 1967. Cover artwork by Karel Thole.

"Disease-ridden, overpopulated; robots and prison-gangs tending the bare, poison-drenched countryside; the people near starvation. This is the world Knowie Noland, ex-convict, ex-traveller, and captain of the tramp freighter trieste star knows and accepts - because there is nothing better to hope for. 

To the beautiful girl named Justine it is a degrading and inhuman condition which can be overcome by global war - a war she wants knowie to start. 

Knowie has always believed that war was a futile and senseless answer to man's problems. But under Justine's persuasive logic he begins to hope that a shot he can fire will lead to the ultimate death of millions and be the start of a better world for the survivors."